City takes on highway projects

By Katie Collins Brush News-Tribune Staff Writer

Posted:
11/13/2012 11:25:16 AM MST

Updated:
11/13/2012 11:26:33 AM MST

City of Brush crews have set up cones to indicate lane shifts along Edison Street/Highway 34 and Highway 71 throughout the first few weeks in November in an endeavor to finish up crack-filling projects that will soon focus on side streets in Brush. (Katie Collins/News-Tribune)

Those making their way to Brush along Highway 34/Edison Street or via Highway 71 the first few weeks of November were greeted with the site of an abundance of orange cones. City of Brush crews set up traffic cones throughout those areas in order to take on seasonal crack-filling projects. According to City of Brush Administrator Monty Torres, the city has begun a maintenance agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) which states that the city will aid in crack-filling, painting, snow removal and street sweeping projects that also will include some small repairs to local roads. “It’s been a few years since the city did a good crack-fill of the streets,” noted Torres. “And we had extra material to take this on now that we had ordered for the city and for the airport.”November proved a prime time for the endeavor as detours surrounding the Brush Downtown Revitalization construction has come to an end and, as late fall as often proved the best time for crack-filling as cracks, are at their widest during the season. City crews have first gone through to blow out cracks with a high-pressure air compressor so that when they insert the hot crack fill material it goes in deep and sticks. The project has forced the city to set up lane shifts along Highway 34 and 71 that will likely continue through the week of November 12.

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Once crews finish those main roads they will switch their efforts to side streets throughout Brush. Residents may have also witnessed much work being done near the Brush 7-11 convenience store along Edison Street where a private company had crews monitoring the ground water situation there.

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